人類学演習Ⅲ/人類学セミナー3
Beyond the nuclear family:a global perspective on families and their influence on child, adolescent and maternal health
Prof. Rebecca Sear（London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine）
2019年07月05日(金) 16:50-18:35 理学部2号館 講堂
※本講演は、公開シンポジウム『ALE
https://sites.google.com/site/alesymposium2019/
Despite a widespread assumption that the nuclear family is normative, the family takes a number of different forms cross-culturally. The role of the father in children’s lives also varies considerably between societies. In this talk, I’ll take an evolutionary perspective to understanding health and demographic outcomes, and introduce the emerging field of evolutionary public health. I’ll then go on to assess the evidence for the hypothesis that humans are ‘cooperative breeders’, meaning that mothers require help to raise children. I’ll use data from around the world to investigate whether and how fathers and extended family members affect child and adolescent health, maternal health and female fertility. The conclusions of this work are that fathers and the extended family often have an important influence on these health and demographic outcomes, but how this influence plays out varies in different cultural and economic settings.
